 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...'Tis but to know how little can be known ; To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or...judge. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? 265 All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful pre-eminence ! yourself to view Above life's... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1848 - 324 pages
...semicolon is sometimes placed between them, and the note of interrogation, after the last only ; as, " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." — Pope. RULE III. — QUESTIONS INDIRECT. When a question is mentioned, but not put directly as a... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 500 pages
...not doomed at times to feel the force of that truth to which Pope has given poetic utterance ? — " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." But he well endured the "painful preeminence " to which his wisdom had brought him. He mourned that... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1848 - 492 pages
...not doomed at times to feel the force of that truth to which Pope has given poetic utterance ? — " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." But he well endured the "painful preeminence " to which his wisdom had brought him. He mourned that... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...'Tis but to know how little can be known ; To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or...judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land 1 All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful pre-eminence ! yourself to view Above life's... | |
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - American essays - 1849 - 420 pages
...not doomed at times to feel the force of that truth to which Pope has given poetic utterance ? — " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." But he well endured the " painful preeminence" to which his wisdom had brought him. He mourned that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...know how little can be known ; To see all others faults , and feel our own : ; Gondemn'd in bus'nëss or in arts to drudge , Without a second, or without...account , Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount : How much of other each is sure to cost ; How each for other oft is wholly lost ; How inconsistent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...Tis but to know how little can be known, To sec all others' faults, and feel our own ; ^ondemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or...save a sinking land ' All fear, none aid you, and frw understand fWul pre-eminence ! yourself !o view AboTe life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1851 - 324 pages
...semicolon is sometimes placed between them, and the note of interrogation, after the last only ; as, " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." — Pope. RULE III. — QUESTIONS INDIRECT. When a question is mentioned, but not put directly as a... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Judges - 1851 - 692 pages
...incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, — " Troths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the buildingyard, while my boat was in progress, I have... | |
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Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few... 
